Sue Hedges: By Yourself (A Different Kind Of). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

By Yourself, a lesson learned by many that often the finest way to bring your truth to the front in your own time and manner. Surround your self with artists who buy into your concept and thoughts, but ultimately the artistic endeavour is one best realised in the mind of the beholder.

Paul Dunbar: The End. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Some fear the end, they see it as a finale they were never prepared for, wasting precious time to avoid what they may see as a void, a darkness to which they will never see light appear, refusing to believe the spotlight of enlightenment will ever shine in their direction, perhaps offering salvation, possibly delivering nothing more than the whispers of emptiness.

Neil Campbell: Diagonals: An Anthology (2020-2026). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There are times in art when an original piece, already lauded for its perspective, its place in time, finds its true value when recognised as part of a larger picture, that a song, an instrumental which captivated an audience suddenly finds a home as part of a continual, substantial profusion rhythm, not just a moment placed into the world, not even part of a key where a couple of movements come together, it is an expression of wider purpose, of a full exposure to the soul and the beauty that is revealed.

Jim Eannelli: See The Children Run. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Generation X have seen it all, had the words of forefathers and relatives placed like monuments before them, witnessed the aftermath of thought and the fear that came with the height of the Cold War, seen every possible technological breakthrough and discovery that could aid and inform the structure of their lives, and yet collectively didn’t pay enough heed to the warnings that would come by deciding they would ask those that followed in their wake to embrace the mantra, what they should have done is told them to run, not walk or idle, not stand still, but actively sprint far from the firing line that they now face.

Dark Winds. Series Three. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Zahn McClarnon, Kiowa Gordon, Jessica Matten, Deanna Allison, Jenna Elfman, Ryan Begay, DezBaa’, Betty Anna Martinez, Jeri Ryan, Anderson Kee, Wade Adakai, Tonantzin Carmelo, Alex Maraz, Terry Serpico, Derek Hinkey, Bodhi Okuma Linton, Bruce Greenwood, Raoul Max Trujillo, Christopher Heyerdahl, Carly Roland, Tsosie, Phil Birke, Casimere Jollette, Melissa Chambers, Robert Knepper, George R.R. Martin, Robert Redford.

Amy Hopwood: Gone To Flowers. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Almost the most perfect gift to celebrate or show appreciation, to display genuine remorse, to hide sins and outrages, those colourful gems of the natural world that has its own language, that are integral to the spells of witches, cared for and studied by botanists, and for every artist, poet, and songwriter, it is the staple, the foundation of their craft which adds beauty to the lyric and the line alike.

Various Artists: Joe Bonamassa’s ‘B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

When we pay tribute to those that inspired us, we are bound by honour to do so with truth at the very centre of our words and actions, anything less demeans and lowers that which came into our possession, into our minds, the actions we have taken when we utter their name with hopeful reverence.

Megadeth: Megadeth. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The end is always inevitable, as greatness is achieved through tireless application to the dedicated cause, so it must pass into the night and be replaced in time by those who were caught in the tornado of what was, and their stamp on it. The difference in appreciation is whether you are aware of the line that must be crossed and whether you make those that laud and follow you of the decision so they are prepared, or perhaps just leave them hanging in forlorn hope of news that will never appear.

Sky Valley Mistress: Luna Mausoleums. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The resting place of stars and heavenly bodies are not large tombs or memorials and cenotaphs signposted for the conscious and the spatially aware, they are for many the crypts for the dusty thoughts of past glories of adventure, of exploration, of missed opportunities to be put right, to be secured as illuminated mausoleums that draw the faithful inwards.

Sam Carter: The Oakham Poacher. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The Midlands has its own sense of uniqueness in the ability to weave a tale through any medium of art. The gentleness of some though may leave other communities and areas at odds with the idea of what lays at the centre of it all, pure industrialisation, the machine that once powered a nation and beyond; and yet the fringes, the outer edge that encompasses a softening of the language and of the accent, there is a strength of purpose to which art such as Folk and the gift of song serenades the listener with guile and the image of nature in full flow.